Three broad groups of factors determine the incidence of rural poverty. First, factors like rural wage rates and wage employment which affect mainly the income of rural labour households. This paper deals with third set of factors, agricultural prices and production, which affect the incomes of...

Bardhan puts together estimates of a large number of demographic, agricultural, technological, economic and institutional variables useful for analysis of variations, across NSS (National Sample Surveys) regions, in the early 1970s. The data have been employed to do a statistical analysis of the...

The Sixth Five-Year Plan (1980-85) aims to reduce the proportion of population below the 'poverty line' to 30% by its terminal year, by means of growth and redistribution of aggregate consumer expenditure. The far higher than expected rate of increase in population, revealed in the results of...